Endangered Species Act

  • Time of the year when grizzlies get very hungry is here

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s called “hyperphagia” Grizzly bears get a serious case of the “munchies” this time of the year. “Ravenous” is more the word. It is overwhelming and not a matter of personal character, but genetic programming to prepare for the winter hibernation. News media articles, agency warmings, and word of mouth tells people that the bears…

  • Rump congressional committee hears Endangered Species Act critics in Billings, MT

    Ralph Maughan

    Some Republican members of House Natural Resources Committee gather to attack ESA and EAJA- Congressional hearings are held in theory to help gather information to write legislation. Every standing committee of Congress has members of both parties in proportion to their numbers in the full House or Senate.  Many congressional hearings are not attended by…

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service catches it for meddling with the wolf delisting peer review process

    Ralph Maughan

    New York Times and others condemn Agency actions. Wolf delisting temporarily halts- Before a species can be removed from the endangered or threatened species list a panel of qualified scientists  (“peers”) need to review the proposal to see if a delisting as proposed is justified — will not result in the species becoming in need…

  • Sage Grouse, Livestock Grazing, and the Bovine Curtain

    George Wuerthner

    There is a lot in the news about the potential listing of sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. Western politicians are using heated rhetoric about how a listing would destroy their economies, and the “western way of life” (read death and destruction to native wildlife). And in good western tradition, they blame the federal…

  • A tiny fox shows strong recovery under the ESA

    Ralph Maughan

    Channel Island fox population grows from 50 to over 2000 in just 9 years- There are many species of fox around the world — 37 or so. Those fox with a naturally limited geographic range are likely to become the most quickly threatened by extinction. So it was with the (California) Channel Island Fox, which…

  • Conservationists Offer $6,500 Reward for Info on Grizzly 726

    Ken Cole

    Bozeman, Mont.—Conservationists are offering a $6,500 reward for information leading to the arrestand conviction of the person(s) responsible for killing a grizzly bear in the Centennial Mountains ofsouthwest Montana last fall. The collar of “Grizzly #726” was recovered from a stream on USDA Sheep Experiment Stationproperty on September 12, 2012. He had been fitted with…

  • Conservation scientists oppose efforts to remove federal protections for wolves across the lower 48 states

    Jeremy Bruskotter

    Interior Secretary Sally Jewell received two letters today from conservation scientists criticizing a draft Rule that would remove protections for wolves across the lower 48 states. One letter came from the American Society of Mammalogists, the other from 16 conservation scientists.  Signatories include several scientists who conducted the research the government relied upon in the…

  • WOLVES, STATE AGENCIES AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

    George Wuerthner

    By George Wuerthner State Fish and Game agencies are in the midst of a funding and mission crisis. They appear unable to adapt to shifting political and demographic changes much as the Republican Party is failing to adjust to new voter realities. The crisis is nowhere more evident than in their attitudes towards predators like…

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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